Christopher Nolan Quotes

But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

I never remember my dreams.

I hardly ever remember my dreams.

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

Dreams are a scientific fact.

People say dreams aren't a thing that happen, and I'm a believer that they do.

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'

I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.

You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.

I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them.

As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever.

I like 'Donnie Darko;' it's a cool take on dreams and sleep.

In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.

I have a very healthy dream life. I dream a lot many, many, many nights a week. When I'm shooting, it's even more - I don't know if it has to do with stress or with creation.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

I've always been fascinated by dreams - mine are so vivid. I went through a period in my 20s when I wrote down my dreams every morning. Then life intervened, and I stopped doing it.

I have dreams all the time.

I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.

Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go.

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

I've been interested in dreams myself for a long time, and it's a big part of the Indian tradition, especially where I was brought up in Calcutta in my family, which is quite traditional.

Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta; they go too low.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.